Michelle Obama and Ann Romney preview debate

The candidates’ wives got into the debate expectations game Tuesday, both sharing with CNN their thoughts and predictions for what will happen when their husbands meet on stage for the first time in Denver on Wednesday night.

For Mitt Romney, the debates are seen as a high-stakes must-win narrative changing contest for a candidate who has lagged in the polls. Both he and President Barack Obama are under the glare of the national spotlight, with their campaigns eager to capitalize on any misstep by the other side — and that’s very much on the minds of their wives.

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“I get so nervous at these debates,” first lady Michelle Obama told CNN’s Jessica Yellin in a preview of an interview that aired Tuesday. “I’m like one of these parents watching their kids on the balance beam.”

The president and his aides have been working overtime to try to lower expectations going into Wednesday’s encounter, but the first lady raised the bar for her husband — praising his abilities and rhetorical skills.

“He doesn’t need much advice. I mean, he’s been doing this for quite some time. So he knows the job. He’s been doing it for quite some time. He’s a very good debater,” she said.

Still, the first lady said that she doesn’t try to put any pressure on the president.

“I do tell him to have fun and relax,” the first lady said. “The truth is, if he’s the Barack Obama the country has come to know and trust, he’s going to do a great job.”

Romney said that her husband has a unique pre-debate routine that pays homage to Mitt’s late father George Romney.

“As soon as he gets on stage, the first thing he does is he takes off his watch and puts it on the podium. But then he writes ‘Dad’ on the piece of paper,” Romney told CNN’s Gloria Borger.

“He loves his dad, respects his dad — doesn’t want to do anything that would not make his father proud,” Romney said. “Just a reminder that, yes I’m here, but dad I love and respect who you are, what you’ve taught me, what kind of a person you are and I’m going to honor that.

She also said that Romney searches the audience for her face throughout the debates.

“Almost after ever answer that he gives, he’ll find me in the audience,” she said. “To see — was that good, was that okay?”

“So even on stage, there’s an emotional connection that’s happening between the two of us during the debate itself,” Romney said.

Anything but discuss the LybiaGate cover up by your husband eh Michelle?

"US CONSULATE RECEIVED REPEATED THREATS, HAD REQUESTED MORE SECURITY

By Julian Pecquet - 10/02/12

“Based on information provided to the Committee by individuals with direct knowledge of events in Libya, the attack that claimed the ambassador’s life was the latest in a long line of attacks on Western diplomats and officials in Libya in the months leading up to September 11, 2012,” Issa and Chaffetz wrote. “It was clearly never, as Administration officials once insisted, the result of a popular protest."

The congressmen said the consulate asked for more security to deal with the growing threat but was turned down by the administration.

“In addition, multiple U.S. federal government officials have confirmed to the Committee that, prior to the September 11 attack, the U.S. mission in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi. The mission in Libya, however, was denied these resources by officials in Washington.”

The letter from the GOP congressmen for the first time reveals an April 6 attack against the consulate in which two former security guards threw homemade improvised explosives over the fence of the compound.

The letter also says militants made no secret of their intention to target Americans in Libya.

On May 22, a warning message was posted on Facebook that a rocket-propelled grenade attack against the Red Cross offices in Benghazi would be followed by a “message for the Americans disturbing the skies over Derna.” A separate threat was made the following month against Ambassador Christopher Stevens that mentioned his morning run with a security detail, complete with a photo of the late ambassador.

Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a Sept. 11 attack on the consulate. The Obama administration initially blamed the attack on militants who acted spontaneously and used protests against an anti-Islam video posted online as cover.

But the administration has shifted its account, with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper calling it a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack” on Friday."

http://thehill.com/blog...

The MSM is giving Obama a COMPLETE WALK ON tthe LYBIA GATE cover up and the utter failure of Obama's bribe and appeasement strategy throughout the Middle East.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Maybe your husband should have shown up for a few more national security briefings instead of campaigning, partying and golfing?

Does Mitt also have a chat with his socks? This guy is a textbook example of OCD/Asperger's. Wears the same shirt and jeans during the entire campaign. Talks like a machine. Walks like he swallowed a rake. Communicates using fragmented sentences mismatched to the time, place and setting. I'm almost certain Mitt eats only certain foods, and probably travels with the same 30 year old luggage using the same air carrier. He is not odd, he is disabled and I'm absolutely stunned that no one made the connection.

If you don't know what all of this means. go rent As Good as it Gets and you will understand. Jack Nicholson is Mitt Romney in that movie.

Romney said that her husband has a unique pre-debate routine that pays homage to Mitt’s late father George Romney.

“As soon as he gets on stage, the first thing he does is he takes off his watch and puts it on the podium. But then he writes ‘Dad’ on the piece of paper,” Romney told CNN’s Gloria Borger.

“He loves his dad, respects his dad — doesn’t want to do anything that would not make his father proud,” Romney said. “Just a reminder that, yes I’m here, but dad I love and respect who you are, what you’ve taught me, what kind of a person you are and I’m going to honor that.

this is pure guilt by this low life ... his father would be ashamed of him (the race baiting, the flip flopping, not releasing his taxes like his father did) ... if he was half the man his father was, he'd be running away with this election ... give me a break ...

The Sludge Report that hate on the First Lady every week for the last 3.5 years a racist rag. Takes a racist to know a racist.

Who but racist pigs wallow in this filth you can tell when the Sludge Report link to any story by the kind of comment their readers leave behind. Why so much hate? Did you defend GW Bush the same way from the liberal vicious attacks?

The Sludge Report is the KKK clearing house. The KKK was a Democratic Party creation. Ever heard of Sen Byrd? yep, a democrat who was a KKK Grand Wizard.

Mitt if you want me to show my papers to vote you will have to show your taxes to be President He already did. Where have you been all this time, hater?

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Can liberals think for themselves or do they just repeat the same Dems talking points from MSNBC, DailyKos, and Media Matters like cows do with grass?